A choice of tea, instant & filter coffee in the break room. Plus the boss and I take turns buying real coffee and cakes from the cafe next door (not often, perhaps a fornightly treat).
Other.
There’s a communal Keurig in the break room, but you have to bring your own Kcups. One of the admin folks keeps a stash in the office supply cabinet in case people desperately need coffee and don’t have any Kcups left, and the accepted donation is 60c in the jar.
I mostly bring my coffee from home, and only resort to the machine if I’m in desperate need of a pick-me-up in the afternoon.
There is “coffee” available in the office, but it’s undrinkable. I stop at the local donut shop and get some there before work.
I don’t drink coffee so I don’t know how often they’re used and in what ways, but yes, our office has coffee pots and seems to provide basic coffee supplies.
Still see a lot of people drinking coffee from Starbucks and Peets though.
Ironically, even though I just finished my second cup of coffee, it wasn’t until I had voted that I noticed the poll was technically “for” people who work in offices. I work in a mail processing facility. Lots of sorting machines and whatnot. There are some offices for supervisors/managers, but those are not accessible to the rank-and-file. It’s my understanding that they have coffee makers (Mr. Coffee-style drip makers, as a general rule).
For us, the peons on the workroom floor, there are several break areas with vending machines. We have the option of spending $.60/cup for Maxwell House regular and decaf, with light, medium, or heavy sugar and lightener. Also a couple of flavors of General Foods International Delights.
If they ever make me PMG there are going to be some serious changes in the coffee policies, and HANG the expense.
Last time I had a job, I was the Coffee Boss. I had these wee tea bags full of coffee (Folgers Coffee Singles), and I would hand them out to my deserving comrades as I saw fit. There were no reasonable alternatives, being that this was the People’s Republic of China. At least we had all the hot water we could drink.
Ehh, eventually I got used to the taste. They were dearly appreciated.
I work at a non-profit in Seattle, and Starbucks donates the brewers, coffee, and a dozen different kinds of tea. There’s always a couple of air pots full.
Always makes me wish I liked coffee and tea.
I work in a specialty group at work, we’re at work at 530 am so we have decent coffee freshly ground from beans that the whole team contributes too. There’s lousy coffee available to everyone for free. The cafeteria sells Starbucks for a buck or so.
Federal employees in the United States have to supply their own coffee.
I didn’t mean to exclude anyone… I only specified offices because I wasn’t thinking of people who work in restaurants, for example, or gas stations, or Wal-Mart (and other retail places), loading baggage onto airplanes, janitors, doctors, the Pope… stuff like that. I was thinking of the worker bees in cubicle land who sit behind a computer all day. But I know all God’s chillun need coffee (or at least all the hot water they can drink).
But really, I’m interested in the mundane details of people’s mundane lives to an unreasonable and unfathomable level.
Schools in Britain generally have kettles in the staff room. Some schools I’ve worked in have provided teabags and instant coffee for nothing, some have required a cash contribution, one had a vending machine that everyone hated and resented (but it was on a timer to switch to free vending during breaks, so people could stock up then and reheat it in the microwave during free periods), two had instant coffee all day or percolated coffee served by one of the kitchen staff at break. Where I am now they provide percolated coffee if we’re having a meeting or training day, but day to day it’s the instant, and it’s free. When I worked in an office (aye, ages long ago), there was a vending machine. I’ve never worked anywhere that didn’t provide at least a kettle.
I don’t have an “office job”, but I have an office…sort of. Anyway, that’s not important, the point is, we have a break room, and in it is an automatic drip coffee maker, with free coffee. I don’t partake, though. Not because I’m not a coffee drinker (I am), but it’s just generally hit or miss (mostly miss) depending on who made it. And the coffee maker itself is slow as a dog.
Instead I get two large coffees from McDonald’s on the way in.
We have a big coffee urn, a kureg machine, a selection of teas, pop, juice and snacks for free.
Theres also a second cup, a Starbucks, two Tim hortons and a variety of coffee shops on the ground floor.
One advantage of being a high school science teacher was always having private areas where I could keep my own coffee maker. Those in other departments rarely had such facilities.
We bought own own Drip Machine and buy own own stuff…but there’s a Keurig if we want to buy the cups for it too.
My last office had only three employees including myself. None of us drank coffee, but I think there was a coffee pot in the breakroom somewhere, leftover from previous years when the office was larger and presumably included coffee drinkers.
We have coffee in our break rooms as well as a cafe with a coffee shop on the campus.
I don’t drink coffee, but where I work, there is a coffee club. I’m not sure how it works, but everyone who drinks pays somehow.
There is also a cafeteria and also vending machines.
One of my federal government acquaintances is in a particularly annoying coffee club. The coffee machine is under the control of the head of the coffee club, and he cleans the coffee maker at 2 p.m. daily, after which it is unavailable for use. So anyone who needs an afternoon cup is screwed or has to trek to Starbucks – the building’s cafeteria also closes at 2.
Only bad thing about going from an ad agency to teaching. Coffee’s two bucks now.
But luckily they contracted with a local micro-roaster to build a mini-coffee joint in the cafeteria, so it’s great stuff.